PLACE / ORCHARD / MEMORY
THE ORCHARD
One place can hold generations of work, migration, family and belonging.
KOORAH · NITJA · BOORDA
Yesterday.
Today.
Tomorrow.
Keeping Western Australia’s living stories alive — one photograph, one voice, one place, one memory at a time.
“Some stories disappear quietly. We exist to help them survive.”
PLACE · MEMORY · CONTINUITYWestern Australia
LIVING HERITAGE
Every place holds a story.
A photograph. A building. A family recipe. A voice remembered. Together, they tell the story of Western Australia.
WHY WAIIVPA EXISTS
Some stories disappear quietly.
A photograph left in a drawer. A recipe never written down. A building that vanishes from a street. An elder whose memories were never recorded.
WAIIVPA exists to help those stories survive — by listening first, preserving with care, and carrying living heritage from one generation to the next.
To help Western Australia remember itself.
ABOUT WAIIVPA
LIVING ARCHIVE · VISUAL CONCEPT
Every object can open a story.
PHOTO / FAMILY / MEMORY
THE FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH
A photograph becomes heritage when someone can still tell us who is inside it.
FOOD / RECIPE / MEMORY
THE RECIPE BOOK
Recipes carry more than ingredients — they carry journeys, voices and home.
YOUTH / CAMERA / FUTURE
THE NEXT KEEPER
Heritage survives when the next generation gains the skills and trust to carry it forward.
WA LIVING HERITAGE ATLAS
Stories live everywhere.
One evolving map for photographs, voices, places, foodways and community memory across Western Australia.
EXPLORE THE ATLASIllustrative prototype
WA Living Heritage Atlas interface concept. Locations and counts are placeholders pending verified archive data.
HOW WE WORK
From memory to living heritage.
01LISTEN
02PRESERVE
03RECREATE
04RETURN
05PASS ON
We don’t simply collect stories. We help communities carry them forward.
FLAGSHIP PROGRAMS
Projects built around people.
In development
LIVING HERITAGE STORIES
Photographs × buildings × elders’ memories × historical reconstruction
Program frameworkTASTE KEEPERS
Food × migrant families × community × intergenerational transmission
In developmentPROJECT 10
Young people × ecology × animation × digital storytelling
Program frameworkCOMMUNITY MEMORY ARCHIVE
Photographs × oral histories × digital preservation
WAIIVPA PRESENTS
PIVFF
Perth International ICH Vertical Video Festival
One minute.
One story.
A culture carried forward.
A screen-native festival where short-form vertical storytelling becomes a doorway into people, place and living heritage.
PIVFF9:16
STORIES
IN YOUR
HAND.01:00
IN YOUR
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FILM / 02VERTICAL
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PEOPLE.
PLACE.
MEMORY.
PLACE.
MEMORY.
ARCHIVEFUTURE
ONE STORY
CAN OPEN
A WORLD.PIVFF
CAN OPEN
A WORLD.PIVFF
RESPONSIBLE DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION
Reimagining the past — without disguising what is new.
THEN
Archival source
MEMORY
“This is where the story starts — with the people who remember.”
Oral history
REIMAGINED
Labelled reconstruction
Archive → Oral History → Research → Responsible Digital Reconstruction
Original ArchiveRestoredReconstructedAI-assisted Interpretation
Digitally reconstructed material is labelled and must not be presented as original historical footage.